Ketchup Chicken - Ketsuppikana

The best foods are born out of coincidence: I was planning to do omuraisu but noticed I was out of eggs (which is kind of bad if you're planning to make an omelette :D). I had already earlier thought how delicious the chicken tomato sauce for omuraisu is, so that time I decided to eat it without the omelette, just the delicious ketchup-y chicken with rice. But if you have eggs, you can serve the dish with them (for instance onsen eggs or fried). This time instead of rice, I used spelt grains (they are so yummy!).

Somehow I find this dish very nostalgic (although I didn't eat it as a child). I'm very sure a seven-year old me would have liked it too. And Foxtail too. Oh, I miss him so much :,,,(

Ketchup Chicken (serves one)

1/2 small onion
vegetable oil
100 g chicken
3 button mushrooms
1 Tbsp ketchup
1 Tbsp concentrated tomato puree
1/4 chicken bouillon cube
100 ml water
a handful of frozen peas
a dash of soy sauce
white pepper

Dice the onion finely. Cut the chicken into bitesize pieces. Slice the mushrooms. Saute onion in oil until translucent. Add the cut chicken pieces and saute until golden. Move to the edge of the pan and saute the mushrooms in the remaining space. Add the ketchup, tomato puree, crumbled bouillon cube, frozen peas and water. Stir until even. Season with white pepper and soy sauce. Let cook down, until the sauce has reduced and coats the chicken. Serve with hot rice or grains and with a boiled or fried egg if you want.

Ketsuppikana yhdelle

1/2 pieni sipuli
kasvisöljyä
100 g kanaa
3 herkkusientä
1 rkl ketsuppia
1 rkl tomaattipyreetä
1/4 kanaliemikuutio
1 dl vettä
kourallinen pakasteherneitä
soijakastiketta
valkopippuria

Kuutioi sipuli. Leikkaa kana paloiksi. Viipaloi herkkusienet. Kuullota sipuli öljyssä. Lisää kanapalat ja kypsennä ne joka puolelta. Siirrä sipuli ja kanat pannun reunalle ja lisää herkkusienet. Paista, kunnes ylimääräinen neste on haihtunut. Lisää ketsuppi, tomaattipyree, murennettu liemikuutionpala, jäiset herneet ja vesi. Sekoita tasaiseksi. Mausta soijakastikkeella ja valkopippurilla. Anna kiehua kasaan, kunnes kastike on riittävän paksua. Tarjoa riisin tai jonkin viljan kanssa ja halutessasi keitetyn tai paistetun kananmunan kanssa.

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